Family Fortunes hire · a big-screen game
“We asked 100 people…” Four words and the whole room already knows the rules. Two teams go head to head guessing the top answers to a survey, dodging three strikes to bank the pot and steal the round, live on one big screen, run from my own software.
Signature move: the whole room split into two sides, players rotated every round, so nearly everyone gets a go at the front.
How a round plays
The surveys are written around your company, your departments, your in-jokes, your industry, which is exactly why the answers land in a way no off-the-shelf quiz ever does.
Split the room into two sides. The board shows a survey question with the top answers hidden behind numbered panels.
Each side calls out answers. The popular ones flip up with a ding and score; the duds earn a strike and a groan from the room.
Three strikes hands the other team one guess to steal the whole pot, the moment every round turns on.
The classic two-player fast-money round closes the game, with a live 30-second clock on the big screen.
On the big screen
Every screen on this page is my own software running live, captured at the size a projector throws. It is one of nine big-screen games in the same app, run from a phone in my hand at the microphone, with the sound, the strikes and the scores built in.
Three ways to play
Every game I run can be played three ways, and I pick the way that suits the room, the timings and the layout on the night: as a show at the front, table against table, or with every single guest playing on their own phone. Mix them across an evening and nobody spends the night watching.
As a show
The television version. Two teams face the board, three strikes, the steal and a fast-money finale with the clock running. I split the whole room into two sides and rotate the players every round, so as many people as possible get to the front and nobody is up there long enough to get nervous.
Best for: awards nights and gala dinnersAt the tables
The board goes up and every table writes its top three answers before anything is revealed. Points for every answer on the board, a bonus for the number one, and the leaderboard by table. The steal becomes a table-against-table argument, which is better television than the original.
Best for: conference dinners and Christmas partiesOn the app
On phones it becomes Common Ground: everyone votes, and you score for matching what the room said. Same shape, three hundred players, and the survey is the people sitting around you rather than a hundred strangers. Side Bets can run on whether the next answer is on the board.
Best for: whole-company nightsBuilt for the room
I customise every game for the audience in front of me: the questions, the answers, and the way I present them. The same format is a completely different show for a room of graduates in their twenties and a room of chief executives, and it should be. I write for the people who will actually be there, then I speak into the listening on the night: I read what the room is giving back and change gear to match it.
See personalised game shows on the big screen →
We asked the office: name something you have said in a meeting that you did not mean.Answers that the room will recognise instantly.
We asked your customers: the first word that comes to mind when they hear your company’s name.Real answers, gathered before the night, with a couple of surprises.
Send me the year’s stories, the in-jokes, the departments and the industry. The rounds are built from them, so the answers land in a way no off-the-shelf pack ever can.
The words on the screen are half of it. How I present them is the rest, and I pitch the pace, the teasing and the tone to the room that has turned up, not the one on the brief.
Eight hundred events across festivals, awards, conferences and dinners means I have hosted every kind of room. If the mood is not what anyone expected, I change the style on the spot, and often the questions too.
In the running order
The centrepiece after dinner, or the game everyone knows to open the entertainment with.
Twenty to thirty minutes for a full game with fast money. A single round makes a five-minute filler between courses.
Run Side Bets on whether the next answer is on the board, and use Common Ground to get the whole room voting first.
“It’s the fastest game there is to explain. Nobody needs a rulebook, they need a microphone in their face and a room shouting the answer at them.”
All sixteen games
Five rounds the whole room plays on their phones, nine big-screen games with teams at the board, and two that need no screen at all: a phone on a forehead, and a coin. The screen games are all my own software, run from one screen, so I can switch format the moment the room needs a lift. Tap any game to see exactly how it plays.
Vote with the room, score for matching it
How it plays →On your phone
Three stories, one true, the room decides
How it plays →On your phone
A knockout quiz down to the last few standing
How it plays →On your phone
Play money on what happens next on stage
How it plays →On your phone
Everyone answers, the lowest scores are cut
How it plays →Big screenThis pageTwo teams, one survey board, three strikes
You are hereBig screen
Categories, buzzers and picture rounds
How it plays →Big screen
Higher or lower on a row of giant cards
How it plays →Big screen
Fill the gap, match the room’s funniest answers
How it plays →Big screen
A hidden phrase, one letter at a time
How it plays →Big screen
Describe it without saying it, against the clock
How it plays →Big screen
The whole room up, hunting and mixing
How it plays →Big screen
The conveyor belt of prizes to remember
How it plays →Big screen
Rave bingo with dance breaks and forfeits
How it plays →No screen needed
Charades with a phone on your forehead, table against table
How it plays →No screen needed
One coin, the whole room on its feet, one winner
How it plays →Almost all of these can be played as a show, at the tables or on the app, and the questions are written around your company before the night. Not sure which mix suits your event? Tell me the room and I will suggest a running order.
What’s included
It is the perfect game for a mixed corporate crowd, where some people came to compete and some came for the bar: everyone can shout a survey answer. I run it live, so the pace, the teasing and the big reveals are worked for the room in front of me, not clicked through on a laptop. If you want a whole evening built around it, see corporate game show hire; if you’d rather a phone-based quiz, see quiz master hire.
What clients say
Kevin recently hosted a company corporate event and proved to be the consummate professional throughout the evening. He has the unique ability to read a room and keep everyone happy.
Kevin hosted our staff conference event this year which was fantastic. He brought an energy and enthusiasm with him and played a really important part in getting people engaged in the day.
Thank you Kevin for hosting our Christmas party in December 2025. The team had an amazing time. We really liked the intertwining of awards and the game. Everyone had a brilliant time and Kevin was fantastic.
Good to know
It is my own recreation, built as software specifically for live events, the format everyone knows, with survey questions written around your company rather than a licensed TV product.
Yes, that is the best part. I write surveys around your business, your teams and your industry, alongside general ones, so the answers get the biggest laughs.
Two teams play the board at once, but the whole room is in it, shouting answers, groaning at the strikes. It works from 20 guests to a few hundred.
A screen or projector I can plug into, and a microphone. I bring and run the software myself, and there is nothing for your venue to install.
Yes. Every game I run can be played three ways: as a show with teams at the front, table against table, or with every guest on their own phone through Play Along. I pick the mix that suits your room and the running order, and I often use all three in one night.
Fees are quoted individually for the date, the venue and the length of the show. Send the numbers and the running order and I will send a quote.
Enquiries
Tell me the room and the numbers and I will run Family Fortunes for your crowd. Hosted right across the UK.
